Marylanders of the year 1987-2016

Johns Hopkins President Steven Muller won The Sun's inaugural award at a time when the university was undergoing a major expansion for his "relentless drive, intelligence, vision, institutional ambition, smooth tongue and grasp of the possible."

Johns Hopkins President Steven Muller won The Sun's inaugural award at a time when the university was undergoing a major expansion for his "relentless drive, intelligence, vision, institutional ambition, smooth tongue and grasp of the possible."

Now well known as one of Annapolis' most effective lobbyists, Vinnie DeMarco was, in The Sun's 1988 estimation, a modest cog in the state bureaucracy who became the essential element in the coalition that won support for landmark restrictions on Saturday Night Specials.

Now well known as one of Annapolis' most effective lobbyists, Vinnie DeMarco was, in The Sun's 1988 estimation, a modest cog in the state bureaucracy who became the essential element in the coalition that won support for landmark restrictions on Saturday Night Specials. (JED KIRSCHBAUM, Baltimore Sun)